Rain Before Seven

Of the weather sayings current in Suffolk, Chambers’s correspondent thought that rain before seven, fine before eleven, was founded on observation, and he had hardly known it fail, though his district, about ten miles from Thetford, had the lowest rainfall in the kingdom. Another saying was that there is never a Saturday without sunshine, which he found almost always true, but no more so than of any other day there. The character of St Swithin’s Day was also much regarded as a sign of wet or fine to come.